Dispatches From Turtle Island

Ancient Hittite records have revealed a previously unknown Anatolian language . It was probably spoken in or near the region indicated in re...

This somewhat mixed result is the latest episode in the wide binary star dynamics debate. It shows strong signs of non-Newtonian behavior, a...

There are two components of the Standard Model of Particle Physics that violate charge parity (CP) conversation, which is to say that the la...

We've made lots of progress in understanding African Paleoclimates.  The two images above are from the paper cited below. The image belo...

The obvious candidates giving rise to an evolutionary biology source for the uncanny valley effect in reality would be other archaic homini...

  From 4gravitons .

Incredibly destructive wars are nothing new. [T]he most significant destruction on the Korean Peninsula was wrought by the Japanese invasion...

This is now reasonably strong (3.4 sigma) evidence from the LHC of Higgs boson decays to a Z boson and a photon at a rate consistent with th...

A new study fails to replicate the findings of five out of six papers that claim to have seen a 3.5 keV radiation line which arguably is the...

I have no doubt that there was a serious bottleneck in hominin populations at roughly the time claimed. But effective population size is a t...

Gravity modification theories seem to more easily solve the Hubble tension than alternative theories. Fifth forces are ubiquitous in modifie...

The simplest solutions to the disparities in measurements of the Hubble constant at early and late times in the history of the universe prob...

This paper essentially rules out the remainder of the viable fuzzy dark matter parameters space.  FDM had been one of the more viable ultra-...

Stacey McGaugh at his Triton Station blog (with some typological errors due to the fact that he's dictating since he recently broke his...

This post about the state of research on the neutrino masses was originally made (with minor modifications from it for this blog post) at P...

We show that, in the application of Riemannian geometry to gravity, there exists a superpotential  V ij   of the Riemann-Christoffel tensor ...